Archive for January, 2013

By Pressing Down A Special Key, It Plays A Little Melody

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

So Casio Computer Co. Ltd.’s latest cutting-edge technology is a flat ladyTM (announced at the beginning of this week at #CES, see our original news of the press briefing which promised a lot more, here). “Driving this exciting new business is Casio Signage, a newly developed, powerful tool for helping store owners gain an edge […]

#ISE2013 Panasonic Hall 1 Stand H56 And H74

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Andrew Neale

Panasonic will be at #ISE2013 to present a host of new display and projector innovations. Their new video wall display, the TH-55LFV50, will be exhibited. This LED backlit LCD display is aimed at both the digital signage and rental & staging market. We are told that it’s a highly energy efficient video wall featuring a […]

MediaSignage First To Adopt Intel’s NUC?

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Dmitry Sokolov

From their latest eblast campaign it appears that MediaSignage.com (a ‘well-promoted’ freemium digital signage vendor out of California, USA) is one of the first digital signage vendors to adopt and aggressively promote Intel’s Next Unit of Computing platform for use in digital signage. Compare above from Intel’s site with the picture on the right from Mediasignage.com’s most […]

ISA New Board Of Directors

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Harry Niese, president of Mid West Sign Supply in Chicago, will serve as chairman of the International Sign Association new Board of Directors for 2013. The new volunteer board reflects recent membership changes aimed at better aligning the national and local levels. “We have reconfigured our board of directors to better serve the needs of […]

An Excellent Wayfinding Example

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are working up some final storyboards for our video wall project at #ISE2013 and have been ploughing through all the real world static and digital examples we have collected on our travels over the last few years. Shown above is a real world example at the newly built Terminal D at Kyiv Boryspil international […]

#ISE2013 TecPodium Interactive Hall 1 Stand K4

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

A pioneer in the development of high-tech lecterns, Tecom has launched a new design for its’ TecPodium Interactive Lecterns, to Universities and Colleges. “We’ve now included our latest and fastest technology in the podium and made the design modern, colorful and effective” says Aviv Brosilovski, Tecom CEO. Tecom’s newest and most advanced lectern (TPI-12W) features […]

#CES LocaModa’s Bleachable Moment For Clorox

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

JP Biamby

LocaModa activated a 360 degree campaign for Clorox on both Miracle Mile and Fashion Show Clear Channel Spectacolor digital billboards in Las Vegas Monday. One of the three billboard’s call-to-action asks consumers to share their own bleachable moment by filling in the blanks to the highly provocative statement: “I _______ED MY _______________ IN VEGAS.” by visiting […]

#ISE2013 @Signagelive Hall 10 Stand Q112

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The folks over at Signagelive are being a real tease about (their) plans for #ISE2013. http://www.smartlfd.com re-directs here and says ‘SmartLFD – SmartTV technology for the commercial world‘ which goes on to say “There is a revolution underway … Digital Signage will change forever … PCs connected to displays will be resigned to history”. Anyway, […]

#ISE2013 Daktronics Hall 8 Stand E170

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

It looks like #ISE2013 is going to be an exciting event for Daktronics, not only are they debuting a new product application in their booth, they are also part of RAI’s internal signage. On their stand we understand that they will have the following: – 6 millimeter pixel layout in Daktronics’ new street furniture application. […]

Former Posterscope U.S. Head Sentenced

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Crime doesn’t pay – but the sentence could have been worse! You may remember our article last fall when Posterscope’s former US president and its financial director were arrested for accounting fraud. We see that Todd Hansen, former Posterscope U.S. president, has received a fairly light sentence compared to what he could have received. Hansen […]